“The result is a fantasy—or nightmare—of computers as both preternatural agents of their own histories and autocratic engines of meaning.”
– Art historian and Buffalo AKG Art Museum curator
Tina Rivers Ryan, on Lowell Nesbitt’s 1965 painting
I.B.M. Disc Pack. The piece is part of a series of “deadpan enlargements of IBM materials” and currently on view at the Leslie Jones-curated LACMA exhibition “
Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age”—a “necessary survey” that “argues that early computer art
is art,” as Ryan writes in her review.
